EA is a heavily attended equine event where people oooh and ahhhh over everything equine...and they shop....they shop like a fashion junkie in NYC....Everything equine is well represented at EA....and I freely admit: I go every year, a true addict.......but have never brought a horse with me.
Everything but the kitchen sink: Into the trailer!!! Honestly, she was FAR more packed than we were.....right down to the kick chains that Steven fashioned for her from a set of hobbles. She had taken to POUNDING the daylights out of her stall walls in previous months....Didn't want her to give Mustangs a bad name and all....Just simple hobbles, fleece lined of course for the Princess....with short pieces of chains...which she promply destroyed during her visit to EA.....but the walls were intact, which is all that really matters after all. They remain, to this day, on the floor of the tackroom floor of the trailer.
Getting Sage settled with the other Mustangs was completely and totally uneventful. You'd think she was a world traveller...she handled it that well! Among other Mustang owners was a young lady and her mom, previous adopters of Sage.....with their mustang. Linda, and her daughter: Monique: who is here: riding the mare she adopted and never got to ride:
Monique had a large photo album with various photos of her Mustangs she'd adopted, including Sage, and dozens of photos of special moments she'd shared with her current Mustang...who's name escapes me. Her with her Mustang:
After The Pfizer Fantasia on Thursday night....a big musical, and quite the dramatic presentation of the horse....The Mustang enthusiasts ( lunatics )assembled in the coliseum, with their sleepy Mustangs for an impromptu riding session....right around midnight. We all rode, even those without a horse with us, and rode each others horses....We Mustang people are so diverse!
Even yours truly got in on the action,.....this guy was SO Cool!!!
We left the Coliseum, Lord knows what time....'bout when when they started the tractor to drag the ring for the next day's activities.....Got the kids settled in the barn and headed off to bed ourselves. Our fearless leader, Kim, had everyone's contact info and was the go~to person if there was any trouble overnight....The reason we got some good rest!
Our fearless leader Kim riding Johwye....I got to ride him too in a most bizzarre bareback saddle: What a gentleman:
Demo tomorrow with more than a dozen Mustangs participating....let's hope Sage's training holds up to some wild applause!!!
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